Ball Now in the Ministers’ Court
It must have dawned on Nigerians that no accomplishment of President Tinubu would ever attract appreciation and accolades of the opposition groups. If Tinubu dramatically achieves a rare feat of placing Nigeria’s democracy on the same pedestal with that of American, the bastion of democratic governance, the opposition would remain un-concerned.
Even, if the ex-Lagos State governor mysteriously achieve turning the attention of the global community from Zurich to Lagos/Abuja as the world preferred investment destination, as well as moving to redirect the global attention from Dubai to Nigeria as the world new tourist centre, the opposition would prefer to close their eyes to reality.
Methinks opposition should be constructive as obtains in decent clime; but, this group has been destructive, unduly violent and disruptive, tempestuous and acrimonious for no other reasons, other than Nigerians rejected them at the polls.
Where are all the health challenges they mischievously hoodwinked Nigerians during campaigns that would hinder the Tinubu presidency? Which of the Angels of heaven has performed the surgical operations on those incoherent and inconsistency of the president’s speeches that they were deploying technology to manipulate at campaign grounds?
Now, they attack everything that bears the mark of government. In recent times, they’ve virulently attacked Nigerian’s global figures for daring to visit the president, to engage him in collaboration on how to chart a new direction for the country.
They’ve serially condemned mercurial and boardroom giant, Tony Elumelu before they discovered that even if they operate in millions, they would never be his match. Dr. Okonjo- Iweala, DG of World Trade Organization made the long journey from her exalted office in Geneva to meet her president essentially on how the all-important global body will assist Nigeria in some targeted areas of economy. Moments after her visitation, they bombarded her social media platforms with unprintable words, a height of insolence and brigandage to a very illustrious Nigerian and global figure of repute.
Nigerians could recall that INEC has been at their receiving end since the body declared the presidential results in February 28. They’d wanted the body to declare them as the winners, thereby robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Also, despite the fact that they’re the petitioners in the presidential election case, they’ve bluntly refused the Judiciary to do their work. They’ve subjected the Justices at the Supreme Court and PEPT to unprecedented assault, never known in the history of this country, as if they already knew where the judgment is headed.
Meanwhile, after his inaugural speech to the nation where he personally invited opposition groups on the need to collaborate with him in charting a new course for the country, a plea they’ve refused, the president has since moved on, extremely focused, with uncommon zeal and patriotism and with the eyes only on the ball for the purpose of delivering dividends of democracy to long-suffering Nigerians.
This is the same spirit and mentality we expect the members of the new Federal Executive Committee (FEC) to imbibe, having been found worthy from thousands (including the writer) across the country who lobbied for the jobs.
Nigerians expect the new ministers to operate with little or no distraction, developmental, patriotic, visionary, courageous and decisive in decision making and more importantly, having zero-tolerance for ethnic or religious bias.
Wale Edun, the Finance and Coordinating Minister of Economy seems to have so much under his belt. Besides his primary responsibility of managing the nation’s finance and gamut of revenue generations, he’ll also be super-intending over Trade and Investments, Economic Planning, as well as Blue Economy.
From his stable, the nation henceforth expects seamless synergy between the fiscal and monetary policies. Flowing from this, the expectant nation expects policy consistency in the financial sector, dovetailing into appreciable performance in foreign reserves, as well as rebound in revenue generations across board; NNPCL, FIRS, NPA, Customs, NIMASA, etc.
With the efficient and effective policy coordination from the minister’s office, moving forward, the nation expects appreciable improvement in the GDP. All things being equal, Nigeria should be boasting of annual GDP growth rate of 6%-7%. More importantly, it’s expedient for the minister to work in concert with Minister of State for Petroleum Resources for the purpose of delivering both Port-Harcourt and Kaduna Refineries on the December, 2023 scheduled dates, having had their rehabilitation cost totally paid for.
Kola Amzat (FCA), Lagos
